Yu Youren

Yu Youren (11 April 1879-10 November 1964) was a Chinese politician and scholar.

Biography
Yu Youren was born in Hedaogang, Shaanxi, China in 1879, and he became known as an author while he was young, publishing a book detailing his anger with the Qing dynasty government. In 1903, he passed a civil service exam, but he was branded as a revolutionary and not allowed into politics. Yu became involved with the Tongmenghui, and he served in some ministerial roles under the Republic of China after 1912. He opposed Yuan Shikai and led revolutionary forces in the northwest in 1918. Yu became known as a calligrapher and scholar after the end of the revolutions, and he fled to Taiwan after the Communist Party of China's takeover in 1949. Yu died in Taipei in 1964.